February 2005

Friday, February 25, 2005

While I was away Newsweek published "The Myth of the Perfect Mother" and everybody and their mother has been commenting on Judith Warner's piece. While I don't think it is a "national epidemic" (Warner only interviewed 150 people for her book and thus she can't justify her over-generalization), I do think that the whole "perfect mommy" thing is a bit out of control. And I don't just blame other moms. Mostly, I blame the media for the damage they've done in making us all feel pitifully inadequate as mothers.

Wednesday, February 23, 2005

I know I've been distracted of late, and I apologize. I'm at a crossroads with this blogging about me thing. Lately, anytime I want to share something, I find myself withdrawing and realizing, "Hmm, maybe this is too personal to share." Once you start self-censoring, it is the beginning of the end for a PERSONAL BLOG.

Sunday, February 20, 2005

I'm back in New Jersey after a whirlwind vacation aboard the Royal Caribbean Voyager of the Seas. I'm exhausted. The cruise was overwhelming -- too much to do, and too much to see. And of course way too much to eat and drink.

The kids went to kids camp almost every night so the husband and I had quite a bit of time to ourselves. I soaked up the sun, although not too much. I finished two books (The Notebook and Judy Blume's Summer Sisters).

Wednesday, February 09, 2005

My latest effort is up over at Literary Mama. It's not an essay, but an abbreviated screenplay of sorts. We've been encouraged to go experimental, to set ourselves apart from the myriad of mommy essays that have taken perch on the internet.

Tuesday, February 08, 2005

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundation under them."